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Eradicating hunger should be top priority

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Thursday June 27, 2013 5:23 AM

A great man once said, “That which you do unto the least of my people, you also do unto me.”
Such aphorisms gird our sense of morality and ethics.

According to U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, $21 billion in cuts to food assistance to the
poor, most of them children, is justifiable and something “both parties know is necessary.” Indeed,
all must be in agreement, or else where are the objections from the other side of the aisle?

If this is true, God help us, because we refuse to help the least among us. French
philosopher Emmanuel Levinas said, “Certainly, justifying the suffering of others is the cause of
all immorality.”

In Congress last week, the leaders we sent to represent us before the nation and the world
were seeking to justify the hunger of innocent children as fiscal responsibility. If Boehner speaks
for the powerful, I speak for the powerless and the least among us.

Fiscal responsibility is necessary, but it's unacceptable at the price of millions of hungry
children.